Moreover, Ji Zun's submissions were still very particular. First, those with insufficient evidence and sensitive identities, such as Ling Yi, were excluded.
There are also people who are difficult to deal with although the evidence is sufficient, such as Xiao Yuehou. Ji Zun specifically clicks on it and says that he is also involved in the Gucheng case, so he will temporarily imprison him until Peng Kun is captured. Find out the truth and then deal with it.
Then the remaining people were convicted one by one and their thoughts on how to deal with them were expressed.
After seeing this, Emperor Wen was also satisfied with this, so he approved it directly. At this point, this big scandal of colluding with the remnants of the ruthless Emperor came to an end.
Tian Shuo was guilty of treason and was sentenced to beheading according to law. He was supposed to bring trouble to the three clans, but in the end because of his status as an eunuch, many people were spared from being buried with him.
Others, such as Zuo Yushi, who were implicated, basically died, had their property confiscated, and were exiled to Nanjun. The rest of the same clansmen who were serving in the court were also dismissed from office.
What remains is to pursue the local officials involved in the matter, and to send troops to seal off the places where Tian Shuo gathers troops in various places.
At this point, a lot of positions have been vacated in the DPRK, and there are also some important positions.
So the people in the court began to make their own moves, hoping to get a share of the pie. Among them, Taifu Lou, an old fox, reacted quickly and came directly to the prince to ask for an official position.
Naturally, Li Hao was unwilling to let him succeed. After all, this guy was too unreliable. When he was originally asked to participate in the rectification of Yuzi, he used excuses to avoid it and did not want to cause trouble.
Now that they are sharing the fruits of victory, they jump out again. They just want to take advantage but don't want to contribute. How can there be such a good thing in this world?
And by this time, the third prince had already suffered a major blow, not to mention that because of Xiao Yuehou's incident, he had a crisis of trust in Emperor Wen.
But the fall of Xiao Yuehou also caused the third prince to lose the most important help in the court. After all, this guy flaunts his impartiality in doing things and has always had little contact with the Jingcheng heroes. It was Xiao Yue who Hou maintains relationships among them.
In addition, Concubine Yue is in a deep palace, and it is difficult to contact the court officials as a concubine. And even if she can be contacted, Concubine Yue may not care about it due to her temperament, so the third prince temporarily lost contact with the hero Jing Fan. of ties.
At this point, the crown prince's status was basically stable, and the role of Taifu Lou was not big, so Li Hao was thinking about how to find an opportunity to drive Taifu Lou away.
Of course, this opportunity must be created slowly. After all, the prince is obsessed with old relationships and cannot find any way to pave the way in advance. I am afraid it will be difficult to succeed, and this will only be possible if Li Hao has Wang Chun to help him.
The most important thing now is to get rid of Mr. Lou's plan to seize the position first, and arrange some of his own people to go in.
However, Li Hao's methods must not be as direct as Taifu Lou's. It seems to be very unscrupulous. It is inappropriate to ask for more officials directly. He still has to help people solve their problems.
So after meeting the prince, Li Hao did not mention the arrival of Taifu Lou, but said, "What are you worried about, prince? You are holding the memorial and have been reading it for a long time without making any move."
Only then did the prince realize that someone had entered the room, and he helplessly replied: "It's Zi Yang. I'm worried about how to arrange this official position. It's not like you don't know how busy the East Palace has been recently."
Li Hao laughed when he heard this and said, "Isn't this a good thing? It proves that His Highness is highly popular and has won the hearts of the people."
"Zi Yang, please stop teasing me. More and more people are coming now, and they all want my help. The question is who can I help.
Please help me quickly and come up with an idea. What should I do about this matter? "The prince couldn't help but reply when he saw Li Hao gloating about his misfortune.
Seeing that the prince was asking questions directly, Li Hao didn't hold back: "Since His Highness can't help everyone, let's just help no one. Only by being impartial can people stop gossiping.
And rather than worrying about these people, I think His Highness should think more about what arrangements His Majesty wants you to make. After all, rather than satisfying them, what you should do most is satisfying His Majesty. "
After listening to Li Hao's words, the prince began to ponder in a low voice, thinking about what decision he would make if he were Emperor Wen.
Certainly.
When Li Hao said this, he basically made it clear what he wanted to achieve, and he didn't say anything else, just waiting for the prince's reaction.
"You are asking me to take this opportunity to promote a poor boy, but is this really okay?" The prince finally thought of this, and this is what Emperor Wen has always wanted to do in recent years.
Li Hao replied: "Of course it is impossible to arrange everything. If we do this, it will definitely cause an uproar in the court.
You must know that even His Majesty has only arranged for a few people in these years. His Majesty does not have such prestige now.
But it is precisely because of this that as long as His Highness can arrange for a few poor families to come in this time, I think His Majesty will be very satisfied. "
"If it's just a few people, it's not bad. Anyway, there are still a lot of official positions to be placed this time. If it doesn't work, just go to the prefectures and counties to place them. But how do you choose candidates for this poor family, and how do you deal with the courtiers? Objection." The prince asked.
Li Hao continued to add: "Your Highness may have forgotten Taixue and Bailushan Academy. There are many poor students with both ability and political integrity in them. And as His Highness said, it is impossible for them to reach high positions as soon as they become officials. This is not realistic. Letting them go to the prefectures and counties for experience is also a good thing for them.
However, in order to avoid causing material disputes, when making specific arrangements, you cannot directly choose children from poor families, which will easily arouse the resentment of others. Instead, you must find ways to create a fair competition opportunity for them, so that the truly capable people can stand out. "
The prince asked at this time: "Fair competition, will the poor people really have a chance? If not, wouldn't it be in vain?"
Li Hao explained: "A noble son can come from a poor family. Your Highness, please don't forget that the Marquis of Xian and Changping in the previous dynasty were both born into poor families, and they still made great achievements.
Even in this dynasty, many of the founders of the country are not of high family status. Does His Highness think that their abilities are insufficient?
His Highness may think so because he has listened too much to other people's words and has already made up his mind about the poor family members. "
The previous words sounded quite reasonable to the prince. Indeed, not to mention others, most of the Jingcheng heroes could only be said to be local tycoons, but in fact they were not of high family status.
And this last sentence means that Li Hao was giving Taifu Lou eye drops. In fact, this was indeed successful, which made the prince start to reflect on how he had the impression that a child from a poor family was completely incompetent.
Li Hao was observing the prince's reaction. After seeing that his expression had almost changed, he started to answer again, interrupting the prince's thoughts to prevent him from asking any further questions.
Now Li Hao can't directly confront the Taifu upstairs, as he will easily lose points on the Prince's side, so everything must be done step by step.
"And if they are given a chance and they can't grasp it themselves, what does that have to do with other people? Your Highness just needs to make your attitude clear. Your Majesty will never blame him."
"Okay, I understand." The prince nodded and said.
But after he finished speaking, he asked Li Hao another sharp question: "However, I am actually a little curious. Normally, because of your family background, you should not support raising money from a poor family. Why did you take the initiative to bring this up today?" .”
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He said that Emperor Wen was very happy about this. In addition to being happy that the prince wanted to promote a poor family and implement his own ideas, the prince also did not use nepotism and appoint private individuals this time.
With the support of Emperor Wen, the prince began to arrange officials. The first was to allocate official positions to the central government, such as the original position of Yushi Zhongcheng from Zuo Yushi.
For a position like this, suitable candidates must be selected from the existing officials in the DPRK and China for transfer.
However, this time neither Emperor Wen nor the Crown Prince directly designated candidates. Instead, at Li Hao's suggestion, they conducted examinations and selected the candidates who were interested and qualified.
We must thank Emperor Wen for this, because he had come up with the method of awarding examinations and positions before and applied it to inspections.
In fact, this form seems to be the same as the imperial examination, in which the merits are determined based on the examination results and then the appointments are awarded.
But the specific content is very different. The examination is specifically aimed at a certain official position, and the target audience is also very different. It is not specifically for those who have not entered the official position to take the scientific examination, or for those who have already entered the official position to take the lock-down examination.
Instead, those who have not entered the officialdom (those without official positions) and those who have entered the officialdom (current officials) are mixed together for a unified examination.
However, precisely because there was a precedent, even though the officials were a little uncomfortable with its use this time, not many people objected.
By the way, Emperor Wen also took some blame for the prince, because after Taifu Lou knew that this arrangement required an examination, he came to the prince to complain.
Then he was led to Emperor Wen, saying that this was Emperor Wen's intention. Anyway, he expected that Taifu Lou would not have the courage to go and confirm it to Emperor Wen.
Incidentally, because of this incident, it attracted the attention of officials in the DPRK and China, so that the examinations and conferrals at Taixue and Bailushan Academy did not attract much attention.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the people appointed there are all small local officials with two to three hundred dan. The ministers in the court are not too fond of them, and they are happy to let the people below fight for them.
While the court was busy with these matters, news of Peng Kun's rebellion in Shouchun also spread to the capital.
However, the atmosphere after hearing the news this time was not as tense as when King Yong rebelled. After all, Shouchun was far away from the capital and was far less threatening than Feng Yijun.
And in terms of ability alone, Peng Kun is several levels away from King Yong. In addition, Shouchun has nothing to offer, so a hasty start cannot really be called a serious problem.
But even though he felt that there was no threat, he still had to fight when he should, so Emperor Wen began to discuss in the court who should be sent to regain Shouchun.
Then Ling Buyi recommended himself, but Emperor Wen didn't want him to go, so the matter came to a stalemate in a short time.
The general has not yet been decided, but many other people who want to join the army in the war have suddenly joined.
There is no way, who would let this kind of war, which does not seem dangerous, happen once in a thousand years, so that many noble families and even court officials have sent their sons and nephews to join the army and go to Shouchun to experience it. .
In addition to being able to take the opportunity to make a contribution to his nephew, he can also show his loyalty and gain more leverage to gain a position for himself.
After all, whether the writing of this kind of liberal arts examination is good or bad depends more on the personal preference of the marking officer.
But in this way, this team will be difficult to lead. After all, it is difficult for this group of aristocratic families to engage in military law.
It's not that I don't dare, but it's just that if a family doesn't have old relatives and friends, it's hard to be cruel. If you hurt feelings, it will be troublesome.
However, Li Hao didn't worry about these arguments. After all, no one in the Yuan family wanted to settle down.
At this time, Li Hao was talking to Wang Chun at home. In the conversation, the crown prince felt a sense of joy in escaping a catastrophe, and he was full of complaints about Wen Xiujun.
Because in his opinion, if he hadn't married Wang Jian on his own initiative, then Wang Jian should have married Shouchun to Peng Kun according to Wen Xiujun's arrangement, and then he was afraid that the Wang family would also be destroyed. disaster.
Wang Yao also thought so at this time, so in addition to understanding her mother's vision - which was really inaccurate, she also felt lucky to marry Li Hao.
Therefore, in the next few
During the day, Li Hao successfully enjoyed the feeling of a gentle hometown, but it was a pity that within a few days of these good days, Li Hao had to leave the capital again.
Speaking of which, Li Hao didn't know how Emperor Wen and Ling Buyi did it, and how it suddenly became the case that the prince personally led the troops to suppress the rebellion, with Ling Buyi assisting as a deputy general.
The same goes for Li Hao, the military commander of the East Palace, who must have been involved and was asked to assist the prince.
Of course, in addition to Li Hao and Ling Buyi, Cui Hou and Lai She also accompanied him to protect the prince.
It is precisely because of this that Li Hao did not even get a deputy general, and was mainly responsible for leading troops to protect the prince.
In this regard, Li Hao originally thought that this was the initiative of the prince, but the prince gave a negative answer, saying that the matter was arranged by Emperor Wen of his own initiative.
After hearing this, he refused. After all, he had never had the experience of leading an army alone before.
But Emperor Wen did not agree, and only said that he would be able to lead the troops for training this time. Anyway, someone would be responsible for the specific things, so he only had to watch more and talk less.
In this way, Li Hao had no choice but to start making preparations for the expedition.
